WASHINGTON (AP) -- The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least 100 people is no "slam dunk," with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria's chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say.

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However, multiple U.S. officials used the phrase "not a slam dunk" to describe the intelligence picture - a reference to then-CIA Director George Tenet's insistence in 2002 that U.S. intelligence showing Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was a "slam dunk" - intelligence that turned out to be wrong.

A report by the Office of the Director for National Intelligence outlining that evidence against Syria is thick with caveats. It builds a case that Assad's forces are most likely responsible while outlining gaps in the U.S. intelligence picture. Relevant congressional committees were to be briefed on that evidence by teleconference call on Thursday, U.S. officials and congressional aides said.

Al Qaeda was behind the gas attack. Obama knew it when it happened. Didn’t want to waste a crisis, and he definitlely didn’t expect anyone to require proof from him of Assad’s involvement since he is used to the media taking his word for it.

I work at a university, and there are tons of Birkenstock wearing, grey ponytailed coiffed, no makeup/no shaving Janet Napolitano-looking liberals here. All this week I’ve been very vocal with them about how Bush did the same that Obama is doing, and we don’t need to go to war in the Middle East, using ALL of the same arguments THEY use back in 2002-2008.

It’s like stirring up a cesspool! They are agreeing with me. I’ve stoked the flames of Obama disdain among his most vehement supporters!

I’m now using this episode to bring up the duplicity of the media. Taking them down a peg or two helps after hearing 15 years of Fox News hatred. And I am feeding the screw-worm of Benghazi into their ears, and just what was the CIA was doing there? Add a healthy does of NSA spying and collecting dossiers on everyone, the IRS getting political (as simple as, “What if Ted Cruz was president and used THAT against the Left?”) and throw in Hillary’s involvement, and it’s been fun city all Summer.

Something as simple as profound disillusionment can be a negative for the democrats running for office come fund-raising time. Just doing my part...

Why the hadez does it have to be only our intelligence responsible? I recall other nations running to sound the alarm prior to us. Let them run the ball this time..and do it alone at that. We never come out ahead, in fact, we are worse off. We can be the “support” this time...(that lasts a few months).

And on my end, I’ve been throwing the amnesty/nsa/deathcare thing at these Americans of African decent (the ones who won’t kill me for a pack of gum). One by one, they too, are seeing the big picture. Immigration is my foot in the door: “We’re being discarded for a new minority”...he he he. Had to hear about it at work when I described the Syrian thing to the other ‘brotha’ working here as ‘Bush in black face and big ears’ [snicker]

Yeah, I’m not subtle. But it’s working. Already turned the black receptionist from Haiti downstairs into a Reagan conservative.

I spoke on Thursday with Syrian Foreign Minister Muallem, and I made it very clear to him that if the regime, as he argued, had nothing to hide, then their response should be immediate: immediate transparency, immediate access, not shelling. Their response needed to be unrestricted and immediate access. Failure to permit that, I told him, would tell its own story. - John Kerry 8/23/13

“A report by the Office of the Director for National Intelligence outlining that evidence against Syria is thick with caveats. It builds a case that Assad’s forces are most likely responsible while outlining gaps in the U.S. intelligence picture”

Uh -huh,,NOW we hear this. Tell it to Biden and Kerry.

Yesterday the Dear Leader and his worshippers were hellbent on bombing Syria (where,who knows?)

Now the WH, OFA and obamabots are busy covering their sorry backsides.

“Something as simple as profound disillusionment can be a negative for the democrats running for office come fund-raising time. Just doing my part...”

You’re a true patriot!

I am working on the ‘mocking’ angle. It’s clear this administration is very sensitive to being mocked.....so I am mocking the Dear Leader and his henchman on as many blogs as I can. There’s so much material and not enough hours in the day!

Smug, know-it-all O'Reilly was dead certain the other night that Assad was responsible for the poison gas attack. He further opined how he just can't wait for Obama to bomb the hell out of Syrian installations.

The two colonels, Hunt and Peters, jumped all over their host, pointing out how he is wrong on almost everything he spouts on the Syrian situation. But the Bloviator blew them off in his usual classy style, maintaining that he is smarter than the two military men combined in his Syrian analysis.

This segment was followed by Bill's fellow warmonger...Charley the Tuna Krauthammer, whose itchy finger is ALSO on the figurative red button aimed at Russian-armed Syria.

I just hope the evidence shows that the rebels did indeed perpetrate a "false flag" gas-attack operation.......and that the Lord of the Factor will have to eat humble pie and publicly apologize to his viewers for blindly jumping to conclusions.

(disclaimer.....as if O'Reilly would EVER apologize or backtrack for anything....)

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